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This month's episode features a reading by Benjamin Percy and Dagoberto Gilb, which was recorded at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre on February 6, 2012. Subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes.
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Apr 22, 2014
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Episode 29 features our April 10th event The Heart of Things Human: An Evening with Richard Ford. The author was joined onstage at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, DC by the Washington Post's Ron Charles for an evening of discussion about Ford's life and work. Ford read from his forthcoming work Let Me Be Frank With You , in which the author returns to the story of Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of three previous novels. Richard Ford has published seven novels and four...
Topics: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Richard Ford, Ron Charles, PEN/Faulkner Podcast
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Dec 21, 2012
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Episode 12 of our podcast, bring you the 2012 PEN Malamud Award Ceremony and Memorial Reading, which took place at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7th, 2012. Established by Bernard Malamudâs family to honor excellence in the art of the short story, the prize has been awarded annually since 1988, and this year honored author James Salter. Among Salter's many works of fiction and non-fiction are two remarkable story collections, Dusk (1988) and Last Night (2005). The...
Topics: Books, Contemporary Literature, James Salter, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, PEN/Faulkner Podcast
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Nov 27, 2012
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Welcome to the PEN/Faulkner Podcast, a monthly podcast showcasing author events from the PEN/Faulkner Foundationâs reading series, as well as occasional clips from our archives. Iâm Nate Brown, Deputy Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and in this episode, we bring you Free Radicals: Two writers explore the idealism and aftermath of utopian aspirations, featuring Robert Stone & Lauren Groff. The reading took place on Monday, November 12th, 2012 at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in...
Topics: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Books, Contemporary Literature, Robert Stone, Lauren Groff, David Talbot
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Jul 8, 2013
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Episode 17 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast features a reading we called Learning to Breathe: An Evening with Terry McMillan, which was held on April 20, 2013 at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC. The evening was moderated by PEN/Faulkner board member (and former board president) Lisa Page, who also provides the introduction you'll hear in this episode. Terry McMillan fell in love with books as a teenager while working at the local library. She studied journalism at UC Berkely and...
Topics: Books, Contemporary Literature, American Literature, Lisa Page, Terry McMillan, PEN/Faulkner...
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Mar 20, 2013
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Episode 14 of the podcast features a reading with William Kennedy and Thomas Mallon that we called Power, Corruption, and Lies: A modern lens on the politics of our past. The reading was held at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Monday, February 25th, 2013, and the reading and discussion was moderated by Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth. William Kennedy was born and raised in Albany, New York, a setting that he again brings to life in his most recent novel Changóâs Beads and...
Topics: Authors, Books, Fiction, Literature, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, William Kennedy, Thomas Mallon,...
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Oct 25, 2013
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Episode 20 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast features a Hill Center/ PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series event held on Sept. 17, 2013 with author MK Asante who read from and discuss his new book, BUCK: A Memoir. Asante was joined in conversation by writer Lisa Page, board member and former president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. MK Asante is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor of creative writing and film at Morgan State University. He received the Langston Hughes...
Topics: Authors, Books, MK Asante, Lisa Page, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, PEN/Faulkner Podcast, Literature
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Oct 25, 2013
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Episode 20 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast features a Hill Center/ PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series event held on Sept. 17, 2013 with author MK Asante who read from and discuss his new book, BUCK: A Memoir. Asante was joined in conversation by writer Lisa Page, board member and former president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. MK Asante is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor of creative writing and film at Morgan State University. He received the Langston Hughes...
Topics: Authors, Books, MK Asante, Lisa Page, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, PEN/Faulkner Podcast, Literature
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Oct 5, 2012
10/12
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Episode 9 features Jeffrey Eugenides, acclaimed author of the novels The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot. Eugenides kicked off PEN/Faulkner's 2012-2013 reading series on September 24, 2012 at the Church of the Reformation in Washington, D.C. The evening was emceed by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles. PEN/Faulkner Executive Director Emma Snyder and PEN/Faulkner Boad President Fazier O'Leary provide the opening remarks. Special thanks to the Folger Shakespeare Library and...
Topics: Books, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, Novels, The Marriage Plot, PEN/Faulkner...
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Feb 6, 2014
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Episode 25 brings you an installment of the Hill Center PEN/Faulkner literary reading series that took place on January 29th of this year. This collaboratively produced reading series takes place at Hill Center at Old Naval Hospital in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Topics: Authors, Books, Literature, Memoir, Lisa Page, Molly McCloskey, PEN/Faulkner Foundation,...
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Dec 13, 2012
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Episode 11 of the PEN/Faulkner podcast features acclaimed novelist, short fiction writer, and critic Alan Cheuse and Alyson Foster, an emerging author whose debut novel and story collection will both be published in 2014. Unlike our previous episodesâwhich come from PEN/Faulkner reading series events and award ceremonies at the Folger Shakespeare Libraryâthis reading marked the debut of a new collaborative venture: The Hill Center Reading Series Presented by PEN/Faulkner. The Hill Center...
Topics: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Books, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Reading, Hill Center, Alan...
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May 10, 2013
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In episode 15 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast, we present a reading by Susan Richards Shreve, author and co-chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and emerging writer Nicole Idar, a fiction writer who studied with Shreve during her time as an MFA student at George Mason University. This event was the second installment of the PEN/Faulkner-Hill Center Literary Reading Series, and the reading took place on March 3, 2013 at Hill Center in Washington, DC.
Topics: Author, Fiction, Hill Center, Nicole Idar, Novelist, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Susan Richards...
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Mar 20, 2013
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Episode 13 of the PEN/Faulkner podcast features a reading by authors Chad Harbach and Karen Russell, as well as a moderated discussion led by journalist Franklin Foer. This event was part of PEN/Faulknerâs long-running reading series at the Folger Shakespeare Library and took place on February 5, 2013. Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin, which inspired the setting for his debut novel The Art of Fielding. He is a cofounder and coeditor of the journal n+1 to which he has contributed essays on...
Topics: Authors, Chad Harbach, Fiction, Folger Shakespeare Library, Franklin Foer, Karen Russell,...
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Jan 6, 2014
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Episode 24 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast features the 2013 PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony and Memorial Reading. Each December, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Malamud Family work to identify a writer who had demonstrated excellence in the short story. The 2013 recipient of the Award was George Saunders, whose most recent collection of short fiction, Tenth of December , was published in January of 2013. This episode features a reading by Saunders held at the Church of the Reformation here in...
Topics: Author, Books, Fiction, Bernard Malamud, Janna Malamud Smith, George Saunders, PEN/Malamud Award,...
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Apr 15, 2014
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Episode 28 features a reading by Phil Klay in conversation with novelist Jennifer Vanderbes, which took place at Hill Center at Old Naval Hospital in Washington, DC on March 14, 2014. Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. After being discharged he went to Hunter College and received an MFA. His writing has appeared in the New York Times , Granta ,...
Topics: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, PEN/Faulkner Podcast, PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, Hill Center at Old...
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Oct 22, 2012
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Each year for the Gala, we invite accomplished writers from around the nation to compose and present three minutes of work written to a single theme. This yearâs Gala theme was âResilience,â and the reading features emcee Calvin Trillin introducing writers Carol Anshaw, Louis Bayard, Chris Bohjalian, Ben Fountain, Major Jackson, Vaddey Ratner, Elissa Schappel, Susan Richards Shreve, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Hilma Wolitzer. This live audio recording from the event begins with opening remarks...
Topics: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, PEN/Faulkner Gala, Carol Anshaw, Louis Bayard, Chris Bohjalian, Ben...
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May 30, 2013
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Episode 16 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast presents the the 33rd Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony, which was held on May 4th at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. The winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction was Benjamin Alire Sáenz, who was recognized for his short story collection Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. The four finalists for the award were: Amelia Gray, for her novel Threats; Laird Hunt for his novel Kind One; T. Geronimo Johnson...
Topics: Awards, Books, Contemporary Literature, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,...
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May 5, 2014
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Episode 30 features Amy Tan and Deborah Tannen, award-winning authors who have been close friends since their days in graduate school at UC Berkeley. The authors joined us on April 16th at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation here in Washington, DC where they read from their work and discussed their approaches to the written word. Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club , The Kitchen God’s Wife , The Hundred Secret Senses , The Bonesetter’s Daughter , The Opposite of Fate: Memories...
Topics: Amy Tan, Deborah Tannen, PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Writers, Novels,...
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Mar 21, 2014
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Episode 27 features our Feb. 24th, 2014 reading "Survival Instincts: First-time Novelists on the Ties That Bind" featuring first-time novelists Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres. They were joined onstage by fellow first-time novelist Elliott Holt, who moderated discussion between Mathis and Torres. Ayana Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writersâ Workshop and is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, her first novel and a New York Times...
Topics: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, Ayana Mathis, Justin Torres, Elliott Holt,...
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May 10, 2013
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In Episode 15, we present a reading by novelist Susan Richards Shreve and emerging fiction writer Nicole Idar. The event was held at Hill Center in Washington, DC on March 3, 2013.
Topics: Contemporary Fiction, Hill Center Reading Series, Fiction, Nicole Idar, Novelist, PEN/Faulkner...
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Sep 16, 2013
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Episode 18 of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation was produced by our friends and colleagues at the Associated Writing Programs. This year, PEN/Faulkner had the pleasure of sponsoring a reading at the annual AWP conference, which was held last March in Boston, Massachusetts. The reading features readings by authors Andre Dubus III and Edith Pearlman and a conversation with the writers moderated by author and PEN/Faulkner board member Mary Kay Zuravleff. Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection...
Topics: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Associated Writing Programs, AWP Conference, Andre Dubus III, Edith...
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Sep 24, 2013
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Episode 19 features authors who participated in PEN/Faulkner's Summer Supper & Book Club, an initiative of PEN/Faulkner's Writers in Schools program. Authors Susan Richards Shreve ( Plum and Jaggers ), Danielle Evans ( Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self ), Felicia Pride ( Patterson Heights ), Derrick Weston Brown ( Wisdom Teeth ), and David Ebenbach ( Between Camelots ) all met with student who had read their work, and they were kind enough to allow us to record short readings from...
Topics: Authors, Book, Literature, Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Susan Richards Shreve, Danielle Evans,...
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Nov 15, 2013
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Episode 21 brings you the 25th anniversary of the PEN/Faulkner Gala, which was held on Monday, October 7th at 6:30 p.m. The Gala celebrates and supports the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and PEN/Faulknerâs Writers in Schools program. Twelve authors joined Master of Ceremonies Calvin Trillin at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre to explore the theme of Renewal through original compositions written for the occasion. The event included our high school essay contest award winner Rachel Page, who read...
Topics: Christopher Castellani, Matt Gallagher & Roy Scranton, Yiyun Li, Anthony Marra, Rachel Page,...
